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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

Video

Los Misterios de Mitra y su iconografía. Dra. Claudina Romero Mayorga

Seminario de Investigación Cultos orientales e Iconografía Máster en Arqueología del Mediterráneo en la Antigüedad Clásica.

Monumentum

Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius

This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

Monumentum

Venus pudica of Mérida

The Venus pudica of Merida stands next to the young Amor riding a dolplhin.

Monumentum

Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen

The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.

Video

The Literary Holy Grail of Mithraic Studies, East and West: The Parthian Epic of Samak-e ʿAyyar

Prof. Parvaneh Pourshariati; 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin, September 2019.

Video

Mitreo di Marino

Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.

Notitia

The gay origins of the Hindi world for friend

The Sanskrit and Hindi word for friend is “Mitra”. It is also the Nepali word for it. The Sinhala word is ‘mitura’. The word’s etymology has surprising, stark and vivid homosexual connotations.

Notitia

Un sanctuaire dédié au dieu Mithra découvert en Corse

L’Inrap vient de mettre au jour un lieu de culte dédié au dieu Mithra sur le site de Mariana, à Lucciana, France.

Syndexios

Hermadio

Mithraic devotee known from Dacia and tentatively associated with inscriptions from Rome and Poetovio.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

Liber

Mitra. Un dios entre Oriente y Occidente

Un recorrido por los orígenes, la expansión y el legado de Mitra desde Persia hasta el corazón de Roma.

Syndexios

Publius Aelius Nepos

Mithraic dedicant associated with the rock-cut sanctuary of Rožanec in Pannonia Superior.

Syndexios

Marcus Aurelius Decimus

Governor of Numidia and prolific dedicator of monuments to Sol Mithras, Sol Invictus and other deities in late Roman North Africa.

Monumentum

Altar of Varia Severa, daughter of Quintus, from Milan

An altar found at Milan (ancient Mediolanum), dedicated to the Invincible Mithras by Varia Severa, daughter of Quintus; because the dedicant is a woman, Cumont suggests it may alternatively be dedicated to the Dis Manibus.

Locus

Transdierna (Orșova)

Transdierna occupied a position near the Danube crossings associated with the Iron Gates region.

Locus

Thun-Allmendingen (Thun)

Allmendingen near Thun occupies a strategic position between the Swiss plateau and Alpine communications routes.

Monumentum

Marble statue of Bonus Eventus from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London

A white marble statue from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, depicting Bonus Eventus standing in a long hanging cloak, leaning on a ship's stem, holding a cornucopia against his shoulder and a patera above a burning altar from the back of which a…

Monumentum

Torchbearer statue from Torrita near Nazzano

A marble standing torchbearer statue in Phrygian cap, tunica, cloak and anaxyrides, found at Torrita near Nazzano in Etruria at the beginning of the nineteenth century, formerly in Trasi's house at Torrita and later in Rome; present location unknown.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

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